Cultural camaraderie between India and Pakistan hits a new high on Friday with virtuoso singers from both countries set to enthrall a packed audience at the MTV Immies in Mumbai.

Versatile singer Hariharan teams up with the Karachi-based rock group Strings to keep the crowd tapping while Shaan joins up with the Pakistan band Fuzon. Sukhbir and the music duo Josh will also participate.

Hariharan’s teaming up with Strings and Shaan’s with Fuzon will be the highlights of the Tata Indicom MTV Immies 2004.

As a six- year-old I could hardly understand music. But there was one tune, which I still remember humming in my class when I was in grade one. The song had a distinctly catchy tune and had taken the Pakistani Pop scene by storm. It started off as Sar kiye yeh pahar. Then suddenly the band who sang this song vanished. And when after eight years the Strings launched their smash hit album called Duur I realized that they were the same guys whose tunes infused a craze of music in me at a very young age.